Bass departure

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#1 Post by **liamemac** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:04 pm

anyone else get the feeling the bass season is over

8 blank trips in south dublin over 2 weeks are starting to convience me,
any thoughts guys

#2 Post by **Century Man** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:08 pm

Between now and Christmas is prime time for BIG bass...keep an eye on your rod..

#3 Post by **liamemac** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:12 pm

Century Man wrote:Between now and Christmas is prime time for BIG Bass...keep an eye on your rod..

sounds exciting century man

ill keep plugging away (pun intended)

#4 Post by **razor2** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:17 pm

Over just starting

#5 Post by **peterw** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:56 pm

They'll be feeding hard and fast this time of year , quite a few showing up our neck of the woods

#6 Post by **Shambo** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:34 pm

Blanked the last 6 times I've been out in search of them but I refuse to believe they're gone, the conditions weren't right

Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:01 pm

is it true that the bass migrate to deeper water

#8 Post by **corbyeire** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:51 pm

the common knowledge is that they go south for warmer waters - however there are hangers on to be had - so much so they seem to be hanging round until the others return

im begining to think at this stage that there are far more of them knocking round the colder months than before

now whether thats global warming, increased numbers due to the commercial ban or just a plain behavioural thing - thats for another thread

#9 Post by **southaussie** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:57 pm

hey everyone i have fished the same mark on the last 2 friday nights and have caught 3 bass, 2 large schoolies and a 2.5-3 pounder. there was surf and a all were caught at dusk, bait black lug wraps.enjoy

#10 Post by **oli** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:32 pm

liamemac wrote:anyone else get the feeling the Bass season is over 8 blank trips in south dublin over 2 weeks are starting to convience me,
any thoughts guys

nt in Cork anyway

#11 Post by **JimH** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:08 pm

nice thoughts there corbyeire

#12 Post by **corbyeire** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:04 pm

im still waiting for the first force 6 to hit and then apparently i can put me spinning gear away

#13 Post by **razor2** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:13 pm

in my area i can get bass all year round .feb and march being a slow time but you can pick them up if your lucky.with all that very cold weather last year it was a different story.i have been under the impresion that bass dont go anywhere

but in other areas it seems the do depart where do they go and why

#14 Post by **dunner** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:56 pm

Had one and lost one last fri(on lure)... water was very clear, then on tues. not a sign... water very murky close in to shore ..but better further out...Nov can be great on bait...

#15 Post by **doublebubble** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:50 pm

I love bass

#16 Post by **bigsod** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:41 pm

doublebubble wrote:I love Bass

Paul its just a pitty they dont love you

#17 Post by **doggie3131** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:55 pm

no problems over here in the west,loads of them about,can't seem to stop catching the feckers!

there getting in the way of me flounder fishing!

#18 Post by **razor2** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:02 pm

doublebubble wrote:I love Bass

paul i hope surfing dogs dont put them off tomorrow night

#19 Post by **liamemac** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:43 pm

Shambo wrote:Blanked the last 6 times I've been out in search of them but I refuse to believe they're gone, the conditions weren't right

its interesting you should mention conditions Shambo, i was reading a post by Jim Hendrick on probassfisher about a period of weather and sea conditions that would bring "an autumn bass bonanza" and sure enough, I had a whopper days fishing in the time frame he described

wonder can he get us a line on the weekend lotto numbers

#20 Post by **Donnyboy1** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:40 pm

Plenty of bass around. I reckon if people are going to interfere with species (be it kill or cause stress and damage with C+R) they must become knowledgeable about that species.

Anyway,

Mature bass enter our shores from about April up the duff as it were

and they spawn here from late april till late July. They have a grand summer holiday but come Oct an internal alarm goes off and tells the fish to start eating and to stock up for winter, and they get fat! About December time the majority of Bass (almost 100% of the mature) head to genetically encoded breeding grounds. They spend 3 months in a fascinating crazy bass orgy then come back to their home (and home could be a stretch of a couple of hundred miles of coast).

And the cycle goes on and on.

Its very unfortunate but its a known fat where these breeding grounds are and unscrupulous fishermen exploit these, both in the exodus to the grounds (which may be hundreds or thousands of miles) or on the breeding ground itself.

There is one such location, Boue Blondel, in the channel islands just off France that is the centre of a lot of media concerning the 'slaughtering' of bass and the affect this has on international stocks...

some info here
http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=we ... NA&cad=rja

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